Former Epic director and Guerrilla Games co-founder is building a European game engine to rival Unreal and Unity

[dangh]

Not straight up as such, but it will be competing against the 2 standard engines without starting from a push of the industry converging towards a new solution, so it acts similarly to a new standard proposition even if it's a product...

Nonsense. It is like saying: we have battlefield and cod, adding another shooter game is another unnecessary standard...
There is a lot of graphic engines. many of them do a better job than a UE5 or Unity. There is nothing wrong to make a tool for other games. And it is a tool, not a standard. It do not want to standardize stuff to become a single and only choice. It aims to a specific niche, and I'm actually curious what it can achieve.

 

[MSIGamer]

I see he picked up the AI delusion from working too long in America, lol.

 

[Endymio]

Nonsense. It is like saying: we have battlefield and cod, adding another shooter game is another unnecessary standard...

A flawed analogy. A videogame is a standalone product, whereas a graphic engine relies upon an ecosystem of countless tools, assets, and a huge number of developers trained to use that engine. Larger engines do indeed become standards, whereas smaller ones generally wither on the vine.

 

[LimyG]

My opinion on this is rather simple. "The immense engine," seems more concept at this time, heck it may even be shelved. Getting into detail will be interesting when we know more but for now:

- If a new game engine which achieves good results and is attractive to devs, become reality, that's good. More competition, more choice.

The only thing I don't "get," is it's place of origin. If it's available equally, I don't mind if it was developed in Europe or the USA. Let the best engine win!

 

[LimyG]

Creating a "fully European" game engine does not seem like a reasonable goal.
I mean, why "fully European" would be a thing? Will Europeans prefer "fully European" games? I doubt, they'll keep preferring games that are fun to play, like everyone else, because that's kinda the point of playing games.

I wish them the best of luck, the more competition there is, the better, and starting from scratch sometimes leads to amazing results ... just the incentive feels wrong.

Oh, I should have read your post before posting myself. That's exactly how I feel at this point in time, just that you worded it better than I did.